Sentence examples for purposes are from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Ross' purposes are unclear.

These purposes are not necessarily incompatible with the stated ones.

The book's purposes are twofold and clearly stated.

His purposes are often defied, but never defeated".

These dominant purposes are, by definition, neither safe nor respectable.

Here, for comparison purposes, are those two songs.

We learn in tragedy that his purposes are not always our own.

Needless to say, Philip Pullman's parallel purposes are hard to reconcile.

By some accounts, Chinese efforts to snoop for economic purposes are considerably more sophisticated.

"What human purposes are served by fostering these attachments?" Turkle asks.

I want to figure out why you work and what your deeper purposes are.